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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

It's Veterans Day here in the U.S.: a day we set aside to honor those who have and are serving in our country's military. There are many fabulous ways to do this.

This is not one of them.

Now, I happen to know that a fair number of military personnel read this blog - a fact I find both humbling and just a teensy bit alarming, since I'm not sure those who share my twisted sense of humor should have access to heavy artillery. (Holy Hand Grenade, anyone?) On the other hand, I do so enjoy all the e-mails with the giant "DECLASSIFIED" stamps on them - and I'm pretty sure my coolness quotient went up about 1000% when a guy in uniform asked to have his photo taken with me at our last signing in Atlanta. (Hi, Paul!)

So in your honor, my dear veterans, here are some patriotic cake designs that will surely bring a tear to your eyes.

Because nothing says "America" quite like a dead, blank-eyed dog with a flag stuck in his head. [patting heart] Ah, it gets you right here, doesn't it?

The underline is what really sells it.

Of course today is about you, the troops:

And as "Owl Troops" you deserve "Supott."

Because you are all "Hero's."

And so we "honer" you, our "vetr ans."

Kind of like how we honor the flag, the symbol of this great nation:

Stirring.

No wait, I take that back: this Wreck leaves me shaken, not stirred. [ba dum bump!]

So remember, everyone: thanks to our veterans we have the freedom to live in this great country: the United States...

The "Supott Owl Toroops" one HAD to have been written by someone who had English as a second language. Or third. That is just so sad on so many levels. Great post today, but it is really sad how many ignorant people there are here. At the same time, that is the great thing about our country, we all have the right to be as ignorant as we want. Seriously though, thank you to all the veterans who have and are serving our country.

You always make me crack up.. now I'm doing it in a more Patreehotic way for Veterans day..BTW I "took the liberty" of linking this over at my MUCH less funny but very heart felt tribute to those who serve and those I served with. Thanks for the giggles.

(Jen, Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two except if thou then proceed to three. Five is right out.)

Hey, Owl Toroops need all the supott they can get! I mean, those field mice aren't going to eat themselves (oh dear, I just had a vision of a owl pellet cake--make it go away!)

Ahem. Yes, thanks to all the brave men and women who have protected their country over the years. All of us, whether celebrating Veterans Day, Remembrance Day or Armistice Day (or any other name given to commemorate the end of WWI) owe a great debt of gratitude.

Armistice Day here but anyone who knows us Brits knows we have a huge sense of humour!So great wrecks ! and keep smiling!Family WWI story, my Grandad was reported as MIA on the list outside the Post Office leaving my Grandmother fearing the worst. Later that day she answered a knock at the door to see him standing on the doorstep! Knocked out by a shell blast he had been put on a hospital ship were he came around to find himself only a few miles from his seaside town home .Luckily for me he lived until 1981 !

so the amerCIA cake was probably the best cake out of all of them as far as overall layout and design, straight flag, mediocre border, ehh- halfway decent writing.. what more do you want amercia? hahah you gotta love the dead dog staring into space being decapitated by a flag!

I'd share one from my great uncle, but the ones that stand out aren't repeatable here (not due to violent content, but because they all had to do with shore leave!) Wish I'd been spared the thoughts, myself!

And thank you to our "toroops" everywhere-- you're in our hearts and prayers!

They do say that many natural born citizens would fail the citizenship test if they had to apply like immigrants. I think we can safely say that these wreckarators would be shipped out on the first boat home.

"Because nothing says "America" quite like a dead, blank-eyed dog with a flag stuck in his head. [patting heart] Ah, it gets you right here, doesn't it?"

LMAO *wipes tears from eyes* That killed me! And what does a dead blue mophead of a dog with blank eyes, a prune nose and its tongue sticking out have to do with TODAY? Did the flagpole stuck in its head kill it? How is blue poochicide patriotic?

The other flags are just. so. sad. They even forgot to finish the stripes on the ribbon thing.

But at least most of these got sprinkles, right?

Go Owl Troops! hoo-HOOT!

(What do you supposed owl troops do anyway? Are they like the night vision alarm watch or something?)

I'm glad you posted those two wrecks I sent in (the 1st and 7th photos). The best part, they were next to each other at the grocery store. Too bad you didn't post the other two I sent in. Of course, if I find 5 wrecks on the same table at the store, do I get a wreck-yahtzee?

I like to scroll down slowly to see if I can figure out what's going on with the cakes before I read your comments. That second one really had me stumped--putting the flag atop Iwo Jima? A salute to the Navy with a large ocean wave? Um, a flag waving in the sky? I gave up. Then I read your comment and couldn't stop laughing. What????? (And then Emma's comment about the blood clot had me going again!) I'm sure that vets all over the world are saluting the Dead Blue Dog of Proud Service. Or something.Thanks as always for the daily laugh. Proud daughter of two WWII vets!

This has got to be, in sum total, the ugliest collection of cakes yet (and ugly giant cookies, and whatever that pockmarked thing with the red-white-and-blue ribbon is).Apparently, many bakers will spare no hideousness in order to "Supott owl troops."

The melted blue animal with a flag stuck in its head must be trying to send some message, but I'm afraid to speculate on what that message might be.

here in Canada we are also "honering" our "trops" I hope that blank eyed dog doesn't make his way to a cake near an army base near my favourite man in uniform. ( Navy whites dress even - so swoony) Ahem I digress. That dog has me still spewing coffee and falling out my chair... don't know why.

God Bless our vets and service men and women in both countries... and spare them wreckiness... they have enough to contend with. Attehn-SHUN - saluting and leaving proud to be Canadian and friend to Americans!

Hero'sThank you, Cake Wrecks, for being here so I have a place to vent about grammatical errors. Frankly, I think my husband is tired of hearing it...lol. I have noticed a growing epidemic in this country. Misused apostrophes, I believe, are going to be the death of me! Ok, maybe not the DEATH of me, but I can certainly picture myself in an insane asylum one day drawing "'s" all over the ceiling.Why do people think that there must be an apostrophe to add an "s" to a word?? I have one word for those people: Idiocracy.If you haven't seen the movie yet, rent it today! Our nation is in peril!

That was great! "We pledge allegiance, to the wreck, of the "united" state's of Amercia. And to the bakery,that made the mess, one cake, under frosting, indecipherable, with buttercream and (sprinkles) for all."

Thanks for the inspiration, Jon and Becky! and Jen, of course!(ho'ws my punctuation? :P )

Also, Gary, you might be right. You remind me of Lucca Brazzi's fate in the "Godfather" when they sent the Corleones the dead fish (message: Lucca Brazzi sleeps with the fishes (translation he's dead and dunked).

What COULD a dead blue melting pooch mean? The lapdog/fuzzy slipper/windex drenched mop/rogue- wave-with-a-face sleeps with the flag?"

Does that help? Does that make sense? (no, of course not. that's why it's wrecky. sorry!)

great wrecks today(as usual). recently gave the 'cakewrecks' book to my mum for her birthday... the whole family passed it around and took turns guffawing at it, so thanks for that! my grandad was a 'desert rat'(a british soldier stationed in africa) in wwii. feeling patriotic today(both u.k. & u.s.a.).-helen

You know, I can forgive that second-to-last cake for being off by about 17 stars, since people generally aren't going to count as long as it it looks like a lot. I can even forgive the fact that they aren't in the correct pattern.

But they're also missing seven stripes, and they're out of order. Not to mention the star section being just as long as the rest of the flag.

Why does that underline look alot like 'less than or equal to' the USA. Just so we don't make other countries feel too bad. They might be equal to us. Or might not be. I like a wishy washy nation w/ confidence.

It's pretty ridiculous to assume that incorrect spelling can only come from non-native English speakers. For instance, I speak English as a second language, yet I teach it to native speakers who can't write English correctly to save their lives.

As a Navy deployment wife (and a pastry student) I can say thank you for posting these! And I will be sure to let my husband know the people he fights for think they live in Amercia. Wow, that word even hurt to type!

Seems like there's some confusion with the wrong kind of vets today! Blue dogs, Owl Troops... still, I am grateful that there were no attempts at eagles that I can determine. That coulda been real messy.

Are you kidding?! I'm in the military and actually did the whole "bless this, O Lord, thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayest blow thine enemies into tiny bits, in thy mercy" schpiel when I threw my first real grenade.

What did my Sergeant do? He started on the "three shall be the number of the counting" bit. We're a funny bunch! (true story!)

@Angela: when you are in the rubber room over misused apostrophes, I will be right beside you. It drives me crazy that even people who are intelligent and otherwise good spellers can seemingly not figure out the difference between plural and possessive forms. Glad someone else feels like I do. Stay strong my sister.

So MAYBE, the blue dog cake is a reference to them. But why the blue dog looks dead is another story....

Gary, Joanne--you may be on to something there. Maybe it's a threat to the blue dog dems....from Pelosi...("vote for this bill or else!") kind of thing. That cake just took on a whole new meaning for me. Yikes. Was this one of the cakes available in DC perchance, mooP?

never fear, peaches. These wrecks are so off base they can be hardly considered American flags. 30 something stars? 5 stripes? c'mon! The one that comes closest is actually an AMERCIAN flag. so no problem! ;)

Amercia, Amercia, Gawd shed his grace on MEEEEEE!!! *salootes screwed up icing flag* I LUV this country (one of the few where you can make a spelling joke and not have small appendages mutilated for it), I luv my family of veterans, and I LUV spelling mistrakes!

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